November 13, 2026
In her November 13, 2026 newsletter, Heather Cox Richardson reports on a week in which the Trump administration threatened Democratic lawmakers promising investigations, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned after disclosures of an affair with a woman assessed to be a Chinese intelligence agent—costing Nvidia nearly $493 billion—and the FAA grounded all U.S. planes for about five hours, canceling 6,600 flights. Richardson judges that when bullying appeared not to work, Trump turned to rage and self-pity.
